VIA Onboard sound with RH8.0
 

I have just started to get to very basic grips with RH8.0, but the lack of sound needs to be sorted now. I am using KDE as my Window Manager. In the SoundCard Detection, I get the following:
Vendor: VIA Technologies
Model: VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller
Module: via82cxxx_audio

The play test sound gives nothing though. I have looked on the viaarena.com and they only have a driver for up to RH7.3. Is there any other way to get sound to work on my system?

Any help or prods in the right direction will be greatly appreciated.

I have heard ALSA is the way to go. I have the same problem but I have not tried ALSA yet.

Also check to make sure the PNP OS in turned off in the BIOS

I have heard ALSA is a set of drivers for sound, but can you tell me anything else about it, and I will check the BIOS next time I reboot.

I'll get back in touch

You can get the RPM's at www.freshrpms.net There are four rpms you will need to download.

To find out more about alsa go to www.alsa-project.org

I couldn't find anything like PNP OS in my BIOS, what is it? Maybe it's down as another name.

Hey, I had a similar problem on Mandrake 9, which I have just sorted thanks to 2 guys.

The main problem I had was Plug N' Play OS set to "yes" in the bios... changed that and Mandrake worked like a dream.

Also... in KDE Control Center in "System" there is a sound configuration option there. Put the I/O sound device thing to "Auto Detect" and check you don't have full-duplex or something like that ticked. Play around with it.... it'll work eventually.

Here's a link to the questions and answers I had, I hope its of use.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=45891

Good luck.

Ratbox,

That is what my problem is. I have Linux on 2 computers neither has that option in the bios. Sound works on one but not the other.

You may try to contact the mother board manufacture and see if there is a way to flash the bios with that as an option.

Ok, just had a look at ALSA and I have downloaded alsa-driver-0.5.9d.tar.bz2. What do I do with a bz2 file?

And more importantly, is this the right file?

You also need to get alsa-lib and alsa-utils, and I would suggest a newer flavor than 0.5 something in the 0.9 range would be better.

Put alsa-driver alsa-utils and alsa-lib in a directory.
for i in *bz2;do tar xjvf "$i";done

cd alsa-lib*
./configure
make
su -c "make install"

cd ../alsa-driver*
./configure
make
su -c "make install"

cd ../alsa-utils*
./configure
make
su -c "make install"

Read the docs pertaining to snd-via82xx and fix your /etc/modules.conf file.

modprobe snd-via82xx

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